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Bleeding Brakes

I'm not saying anyone else would be so stupid as to make the same mistake I made but you have noticed that there is an inner bleed nipple as well as an outer one?
 
Success!

Tried leaving the nipples open overnight Colin but it seems that ambient air pressure and gravity were not enough to push the fluid through the system. What it needed was positive pressure on the MC reservoir. I filled and connected my 20yr old Gunsons Eazi bleed this morning and after a brief gurgle there was a satisfying "whoooosh" and the entire contents (about half a pint) of the Eazi bleed bottle injected themselves into the system. After re-filling the Eazi Bleed, I connected up again and then went round all the nipples in turn starting from the rear right and every one came through clean within a second or two.

So it seems that having had the system drained down completely there was simply such a huge volume of air that the small displacement of the MC piston wasn't sufficient to move it and the vacuum pump just didn't have the oooomph to pull the fluid round the tortuous circuit. So handy hint for anyone who needs to refill an empty system is to start with an Eazi Bleed!
 
I am late to the party here but concur that vacuum bleeding doesn't work because air leaks in past the bleed nipple thread and that is the path least resistant.
A gunson eezibleed is the way forward!
 
That what was I concluded after 20 mins of furious suction Rob. I contemplated PTFE taping the threads to test the theory but couldn't be bothered doing all 8 of them. Was quite relieved when I rummaged in my tool chest and found my 20yr old Eazi bleed there because I only brought essential tools out here with me and I thought it might be back in the UK. Needed a bit of a clean up but worked perfectly.
 
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